How should we think the weaponisation of sound? And what, if anything, has law got to do with it? Dr. James Parker, director of a research program on Law, Sound and the International at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) at Melbourne Law School, surveys the privileged landscapes and material technics of sonic warfare. This lecture was recorded on the 3rd of October 2015 at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. in this amplified lecture.

Read more of Jame Parker's research here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20551940.2018.1564458?journalCode=rfso20

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/la2015-brisbane

Histories and Theories of Sound

03 October 2015

Institute of Modern Art Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane

Presented by Liquid Architecture, 4ZZZ, and IMA Brisbane

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